PerfectDraft Senior / Lead DevOps Engineer Evergreen

Overview

As part of the PerfectDraft engineering team in London, you will shape an AI-ready cloud platform and modern delivery pipelines. You’ll apply infrastructure-as-code, automation, and DevOps practices to support scalable, secure product delivery at global scale. You’ll lead AI-enabled workflows and help ensure responsible use of AI in engineering. This role combines platform engineering, security-by-design, and cross-functional collaboration to drive reliable, high-impact outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• 25 holidays per year + bank holidays
• pension (up to 8% employer contribution)
• private medical insurance
• gym discounts
• 26 weeks paid parental leave for eligible primary caregivers
• beer allowance

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve an AI-ready cloud platform using infrastructure-as-code (Terraform) and modern DevOps practices
• Develop and optimise AI-enabled CI/CD pipelines with automation, testing, and governance controls
• Drive adoption of AI-powered engineering workflows by providing infrastructure, tooling, guardrails and developer platforms
• Use AI, automation and observability tools to improve performance, reliability and cost efficiency across cloud and production environments
• Embed security-by-design principles across infrastructure, delivery processes and AI development practices
• Act as a technical leader across engineering teams, mentoring engineers and improving developer experience

Key requirements

• Proven experience designing, building and supporting secure, scalable cloud infrastructure in production
• Hands-on experience with Terraform and cloud platforms (Azure, AWS or GCP)
• Demonstrated success in building CI/CD pipelines and automation frameworks
• Strong understanding of observability (logging, monitoring, incident management)
• Interest in applying AI/automation to engineering workflows and responsible AI adoption
• Collaborative, pragmatic approach with ability to influence across technical teams
• Formal qualifications are not required, practical capability is valued

• collaboration
• pragmatism
• influence across teams
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
• Azure/AWS/GCP cloud platforms
• Containers and orchestration

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